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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1845
Page
3
A temperance era column condemns drunken officers who betrayed their country, praising sober leaders who protected the nation. It calls on youths to consider the risks of debauch and warns that intoxication can drive acts of infamy and treachery against one’s guardians and homeland.
A temperance era soliloquy reveals a shopkeeper tormented by a reformer, a minister, and a sober rival family. He plans blinds and a renewed liquor trade to spite the reform movement while fearing exposure of past drunken acts. The piece blends tavern memory with a real cotton market discussion and agricultural proposals.
A Camden Journal report on a planters meeting in Mobile Alabama chaired by Col James S Deas. The committee rejects fixed acreage or harvest time limits as impractical and suggests future culture recommendations. Agricultural associations are noted as diligent but are not seen as solving the issue.
There seems to be no warning of firearms that cen. The fragment indicates a fatal incident with missing details, suggesting a sudden event lacking prior warning and implying potential danger or crime. Further specifics are unavailable in the readable text.
On the second of March Sabbath morning Evard a Pittsylvania County silversmith drew a loaded musket in the Rising Sum tavern back room and fired at bar keeper Francis Compton aged about eighteen. The shot struck the breast, passing through, and Compton fell in the front room. Evard was committed to jail for the killing. The incident mirrors a prior fatality at the same spot two years earlier.
A relic press dating back 119 years will be placed in the National Institute gallery in Washington. The oak case bears dried ink residue and the die measures 20 by 12 inches with a 25 by 20 inch bed. Presented by Harup & Son London to Joan B. Murray of New York, who donated it to the Institute.
A singular creature found at Oyster Bay on Long Island features an oyster grown upon the back of a sea spider. The oyster is described as a quadruped with two distinct hearts and bodies, seemingly propelled by the spider’s movement though now nearly stationary under the burden.
Dispatches reveal Santa Anna remains confined in Perote prison with intercepted letters to Vera Cruz merchants directing them to hold his cash, the government reporting the intercept.
The Cambria steamer's favorable Liverpool reports to August 4 lift cotton prices about a penny per pound in the market. Demand is not as brisk as earlier in the week while river conditions support steamers with tow boats. Bagging prices remain unchanged and groceries show limited demand with a likely upward price tendency.
In this city on the 23d inst after an illness of sixteen days Laurence N James died in the 21st year of his age.
The Washington Total Abstinence Society will hold a meeting Thursday night April 3 at City Hall starting 7:30. Several addresses are expected and an election for Board of Managers will be held. Members and the public are invited to attend. WM. HAINES Jr., Secretary.
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